As an author of westerns, I figured I'd better put a bunch of interesting facts and fiction concerning the historical west on the web. This blog does that. It will include poetry, fiction, factual articles and links, and as much western color as I can muster. Have a fun read.

About Me

永年コピライターをしてから引退をしました。2005年にニュージーランドへ渡りヨットを自作。単独の世界一周に出港。難破。船を亡くしたが命が助かった。それから小説作家の道へ。現在では10冊目が売れ、11冊目に取りかかる所。頑張ります。
Although I write Western novels as Chuck Tyrell, I've been a magazine and newspaper journalist for more than 30 years. I'm interested in the effect sports have on the lives of physically challenged athletes (we call them paralympians) and have started a blog about them. I also have a blog in Japanese on the eternal enigma of learning English.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Killing Trail

Robert Hale Ltd. informs me that The Killing Trail, my sixth Black Horse Western, will be published on June 30, 2010.

The Dylan brothers ride high in Ouray, Colorado, until they bully a drifter who leaves three of them dead in the street. Nat Dylan, the youngest, swears to hunt down the drifter, Jared Carter, and avenge his brothers. Carter’s trail leads into Arizona country where Dylan meets Wagonwheel owner Colonel Alton Jackson and hires on to kill Jared Carter. But the more he learns of Carter and Jackson, the more he finds himself on the wrong side. He meets Carmen Vasquez, who sees him as an honorable man, and he feels the mutual attraction. Still, on his honor he must call out Jared Carter, but can he survive a gunfight with the man who killed three Dylans by himself?

6 comments:

I see your link to Novel Matters, and after a look there I find that it's a team of women "Christian" writers who advocate glorifying the Creator as a chief objective of fiction-writing. How does this square with your own aims as a writer, and BTW, I'd be interested in reviewing your new book.

Hi Chuck!I am chair of Meldrum Writers' Group in Aberdeenshire, Scotland & we hold several small competitions each year, just amoung ourselves. We have just finished a Crime Fiction Competition and our Love Story comp ends in 3 weeks. Our next genre selected is a Western, and I wondered if you would do us the honour of judging it? There will probably be no more than 6 stories (although it is more likely to be 4) and each story is a maximum of 5000 words. We are happy to let our judge have as much time as he or she needs to look at our stories. You can contact me through my blog www.nettiethomson/blogspot.com, facebook (www.facebook.com/nettiewriter) or twitter (@NettieWriter) Our closing date is 18th August so the judging would be anytime after that. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Good luck with your new boook! Nettie x